Grow Your VFX Studio Or Compositing Career
We Help you in 5 Ways
- Let’s build you a portfolio like WizardVFX.com
- Collaborate with Lendon & members to build high-end shots that go on everyone’s reel
- 100+ Professional Hollywood VFX Plates to upgrade your demoreel
- Work with Lendon via screenshare to produce killer shots
- 50 demoreel references for inspiration (of different studio levels)
We’ll help you systematically land big clients like these (also farm out work to you via WizardVFX.com):
We send clients to you
Lendon will give you referrals to majorly boost your credibility
Step by step procedure doc & CRM software to EFFICIENTLY find & email network with key contacts for key each type of client project:
- Film Studios, Streaming Services, TV Networks
- Overflow work from big VFX Studios
- TVC Spots
- Gaming Cinematics
- Small Feature Films, Documentaries & Indie
- Music Videos
- Business Commercials
We use CRM automation & email templates to assemble a powerful sales email sequence that is easily tweaked for each client
- Live sessions with Lendon or mastermind members (learn any VFX skill)
- While working on real-world client projects, Lendon & community screencapture super short mini-tutorials DAILY
- Concise Nuke course (Tracking, Roto, Paint, Keying, 3D, etc) Especially made for transitioning After Effects artists
- Advanced After Effects Course (memorize tons of shortcuts, top 50 effects, tackling advanced shots, etc)
- Learn 3D on live sessions with Lendon & from other members in the community
- Staying up-to-date with AI & latest tech
Recruiting Quality Talent (Done for you, Templates, Procedure Doc & Training)
Effective HR Roster & Interviews (Software, Training)
Team Training (Bite-sized Tutorial from Lendon, How to make your own training, free LMS software)
Reducing Payroll Expense & Tracking Productivity (Software, Training)
Artist Availability, Retention, Benefits & Culture (Software & Training)
Security dangers & access control
Team communication & meetings
Production Pipeline:
- Automation scripts for Nuke, After Effects, & 3D apps
- ProductionFlow or SG setup
(Video annotated revisions, Tracking Shot Status, Assignee, Tasks, Assets) - Quality control automation & procedures
- Identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies
- Auto folder structures & naming convention
- Integrating compositing & 3d department
Client Management:
- Accurate deadline & capacity estimations for client
- Coordinator protocols
- Bidding projects & market pricing standards
- Frequent client relationship problems
- Invoicing, profit margins & taxes
Assets & Equipment:
- Render Farm
- Optimizing workstations
- Shared local network drive
- Asset, template, gizmo libraries
- Equipment techstack
- Cheapest office solutions to meet with clients & review on big screen
- Dashboard to monitor resource usage
Simple tool to run VFX studio operations
VFX Pipeline
Revisions
Auto-sync renders
Draw on renders to give revisions
Tracking & Deadline
Arrange tasks & milestones on calendar
Artist assignments
Shot status
Progress report
Profit Margin Control
Calculate payroll expense for each project & artist
Calculate profit margins & remaining budget timeline
Measure of productivity to find payroll waste
Recruiting
Roster of all freelancers with image & info
Record interview & assign skill levels
Call them directly from Production Flow
Sales Pipeline
Track Leads
Contact list of all clients & prospects (tag & organize)
Notes, pipeline stage & communication history
Call, email or text directly inside Production Flow
Gmail integration
Bulk email / SMS
Use tags like %FIRSTNAME%
Segment & exclude contacts
Chat GPT Draft Emails
Automated email drafts to increase follow-up efficiency
Email templates
Email sequence from our customized email templates
Calendar
Schedule and track outreach/followup volume
Don't forget to followup with a client
What Members are saying
Pricing
Artist Income Accelerator
- Get hired as a Nuke Compositor or produce Motion Design commercials (often freelance)
- Quickstart Courses for Nuke, After Effects, A.I Tools, Demoreel, and Marketing your talent
- Community feedback on your work
- Group coaching sessions
- Daily updates about new A.I tools related to the VFX Industry
- Project files + footage for demoreel
$99 / month (comes FREE with VFX Studio Mastermind)
Cancel anytime
VFX Studio Mastermind
- Get big clients studio clients
- Many resources to grow 5 pillars of remote VFX studio
(Portfolio, Clientele, VFX skills, Team & HR, Pipeline & Assets) - ProductionFlow.io VFX Project & Sales Pipeline Software
- Up to 3 weekly 1:1 breakthrough meetings with Lendon
- More Demoreel Footage, Work on team demoreel shots with Lendon & Students, Use Lendon’s portfolio as your own
$699 / month, then reduces to $99 / month after 3 months
Cancel anytime
FREE Breakthrough meeting
You will receive a document outlining steps to optimize many aspects of your business.
- What does it take to grow a studio to $200k+ revenue or $1M? (I only have second hand experience of the latter)
- Will AI benefit or hurt my studio or startup?
- After Effects or Nuke for my compositing pipeline?
- How rare are $100k+ budget projects? Is there too much competition? How to find them?
- What marketing channel is best for client acquisition?
- Why the VFX studios are evolving toward remote teams & AI
What is a mastermind?
How we grow: Portfolio, Clientele, VFX Skills, Team, Pipeline
Work sessions with Lendon
- Extreme productivity = revenue
- Avoid making costly mistakes & wasting time/money going in sub-optimal direction
- Get Lendon’s polish on everything
- Learn VFX & 3D skills via 1:1 meetings
- Many other things mentioned in 5 pillars like referrals from Lendon, plethora of studio resources, etc
Software & Assets
- Group share VFX software & elements (save serious money, discover new tools)
- VFX Asset Goldmine
- High-end Hollywood VFX plates for next-level demoreel
- ProductionFlow.io
150% efficiency in VFX pipeline (Shotgrid alternative)
400% efficiency boost of sales pipeline - UberVFX Clientele Platform
- Much more
Procedures & Training
- Workflow docs & videos for sales, service delivery, pipeline, team, admin
- Constant feed of bite-size tutorials to improve your studio, VFX skills & keep up with new AI tools
- Advanced After Effects course
- Concise Nuke course Nuke course made for transitioning After Effects users
CommuNity
- Seeing your friend hit high revenue targets flips a switch in your brain
- Stronger together: help each other sell clients with different specialties & portfolios, collaborate on projects
- Will be helpful in many unexpected ways
- Share VFX resources (save serious money, discover new tools)
- Receive referrals, etc
Lendon Bracewell
LEADS THE BUSINESS
Hi, I’m Lendon. I currently live outside Atlanta, GA. I’m the founder of VisionaryFire.com and WizardVFX.com
Video Copilot’s early tutorials kicked off my career (no surprise), worked for ActionVFX.com, I moved to LA, worked for big VFX studios, and eventually started WizardVFX.com that has been very successful.
Before all that my parents went though an big divorce when I was 16 and I started living on my own at that age (was eating oatmeal and didn’t have friends lol) and had to figure out how to make money with VFX. I never worked a local job and never went to public school.
I have extensive experience in Nuke, Adobe Suite, Cinema 4D, and have worked closely with specialist in every other VFX software like Houdini, Maya, Blender, etc
My goals are:
- Help artists and studios earn more
- Help people become happier and wiser with meditation
- Teach as many people as possible by growing YouTube and what not
For fun, I like to:
- Learn about the Buddha’s teaching
- Design & build software
- Have useful conversations with my friends & family
- Make friends with strangers
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